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Domestic Economic Foreign Opinion POLITICSHolding Our Own to High Standards: Joe Biden’s Policy Shortcomings

3 years ago1103015 min

After the most tumultuous election cycle since Bush/Gore 2000 the people had officially spoken by electing our 46th president Joe Biden. Biden defeated the incumbent Trump making him the 10th one term President, a figure who is somehow one of the most loved and most hated Presidents in US history. This schism is reflective of the drastic levels of partisanship currently in our country. Ex-President Donald Trump didn’t do himself any favors during his Presidency...

by Gary Flick

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Domestic Economic Foreign POLITICSOil in the US

3 years ago68810 min

A few weeks ago, President Biden drew a lot of praise from the left and a lot of scrutiny from the right when he signed the “Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis.” The title including the words “Restoring Science” is subjectively pretty funny, but even with the Keystone Pipeline cancellation, many environmental activists believe the order falls short (but in Biden’s defense, no one is ever happy...

by Jackie Bryant

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Domestic Economic LIFESTYLE POLITICSThe War on Weed

3 years ago78914 min

“I’d rather you smoke weed than drink and drive,” my dad once said to me, age 16, after my parents caught me buying shitty brick weed off directly in front of our suburban family home. His lopsided comparison stuck with me. Weed seemed infinitely safer and tamer than drinking did. And if adults I knew also respected smoked weed, many of whom had lovely families and successful careers, how bad could it possibly be? Why,...

by J-Walk

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Economic Foreign POLITICSPower of the People: The Indian Farmer’s Protest Explained

3 years ago124112 min

On a day that normally called for celebration in India, the streets of New Delhi were blanketed by protesters infuriated from the Government’s new mandates that will drastically change the farming industry. During this past Republic Day– a national holiday that marks the anniversary of India officially adopting its constitution 71 years ago- thousands of protesters demonstrated in front of the Red Fort which once stood as the residence of the Mughal Emperors in Old...

by Gary Flick

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Domestic Economic POLITICSPandemic Winners and Losers: The Food Service Industry

3 years ago66313 min

Unless you manufacture hand sanitizer or work in healthcare, there’s a chance you were faced with some employment-related uncertainty at one point or another during the COVID-19 pandemic and the wonder year that was 2020. For a lot of industries, most changes were one-time, followed by a period allowing for adaptability and, eventually, the new normalcy that was spoken of a lot at the beginning of the stay-at-home orders. One industry that did not have...

by Gary Flick

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Domestic Economic Opinion POLITICSBad Year + Goodyear = Worse Year

4 years ago113359 min

2020 sucks, no doubt. And most of the suckery could have certainly been kept at bay if Donald Trump wasn’t an inexperienced buffoon. But to blame him for the entirety of the economic and health tribulations that happened due to a random deadly virus seems a bit unfair to me (calling him a racist turd, however, not unfair). What we can blame him for, is adding to the unavoidable dumpster fire by taking aim at...

by Gary Flick

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Domestic Economic POLITICS SPORTSThe Kaepernick Effect

4 years ago84712 min

The Black Lives Matter movement had as much steam about a month ago as it has had since its inception in 2013, primarily fueled by civilians spreading the group’s message on social media and taking to the streets to protest the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, as well as all of those beaten and killed at the hands of police officers before them. When the list of people we know were victims of...

by Kendall Roy

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Economic POLITICSOUTLAW PART II: BAD HOMBRE

5 years ago127826 min

In OUTLAW PART:I our hero was lost in the woods, chased by coyotes, and darting out of private neighborhoods. To understand that story better lets take you back to the start… OUTLAW PART II: BAD HOMBRE I landed in Austin bright eyed but over the coarse of four days I tied to find out what this city was all about. I was supposed to be mystified by Austin. Which I was but in a different...